Word: snorkey
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Dates: during 1931-1931
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Sucking a coughdrop, Alphonse Capone faced Judge James Herbert Wilkerson in Chicago's Federal Court last week. Snorkey was nervous. Fortnight ago a jury eleven-twelfths rustic had found him guilty of failing to pay an income tax during the years 1924-28, had decided he feloniously "attempted to evade & defeat" payment during three of those years. Now he was to be sentenced. As a concession to the solemnity of the occasion he had left off his jewelry, was wearing a comparatively sober pinchback suit of blue. He fondled a bandaged right fore-(trigger)-finger, sucked and sucked...
Judge Wilkerson was nervous too. In a low voice he ordered Snorkey to stand up. Snorkey clambered to his feet, gulped, swallowed his coughdrop. Slowly, deliberately Judge Wilkerson sentenced him to the limit-17 years in prison, $50,000 in fines. Snorkey hiccuped, regurgitated his coughdrop...
Sentence. A moment later Judge Wilkerson explained the sentence in detail and Snorkey realized that he would not have to spend 17 years in prison. For the felony of attempting to evade tax payments during three years his sentence was five years for each offense, but two of the terms were to run concurrently. For failing to pay up the other two times he received one year each, but those two sentences were also to run concurrently. Total: eleven years. The fine for each count was $10,000; total: $50,000, and all of that Snorkey must...
Soon the meaning of the verdict became apparent. The jury had decided Snorkey feloniously "attempted to evade & defeat" the income tax in 1925, 1926, 1927, but in 1924 & 1928 he only "failed" to pay up. The jury apparently thought he had tried his best...
...Snorkey did not think Judge Wilkerson would give him the maximum penalty. He grinned in all directions around the courtroom, then got to his feet, hurried to an elevator, descended to the street, jumped into a waiting automobile and disappeared into the sprawling city whose thousands of illicit night haunts were his Empire...